In the organizer's words:

This year, COLLUMINA V will take place from November 26-29, 2025 in Cologne at Haus der Stiftungen / Galerie Seippel in Zeughausstraße (Altstadt-Nord), KulturKubus, Haus der Architektur (city center) and at the Greenhouse building on Iltisstraße (Ehrenfeld). Works by international artists will be shown, including Nieves de la Fuente Gutierrez, Hartung | Trenz, Jacqueline Hen, Navid Razavi, Andreas Schmid, François Schwamborn, Sanaz Starcic, Yoana Tuzharova and XENORAMA. The art projects include neon light, projections, light paintings, video installations, sound art and theater.

The light art project COLLUMINA is a free exhibition format in public spaces in and with selected venues in Cologne. As a platform for light art, COLLUMINA offers this art form a temporary presence in the city free of access restrictions and at the same time illuminates unusual places in the city. Visitors are guided to the art projects by means of an app. Established artists and pioneers of light art are shown alongside younger generations of artists. The projects are conceived using various techniques, including neon light, LED, projection and video mapping.

The initiator and artistic director of COLLUMINA is art historian and gallery owner Dr. Ralf Seippel, who established the project in Cologne in 2018. The transdisciplinary project with Navid Razavi at KulturKubus is directed and curated by Lily McLeish.
As part of COLLUMINA V, an interdisciplinary theater media installation by Navid Razavi will be shown at KulturKubus, Haus der Architektur, in cooperation with the drama school DER KELLER e.V. and director Lily McLeish. The performance "Ghost in the Machine" will be shown at two different times in the evening, 19h + 20:30h (registration required! Free tickets via eventbrite).
As part of the light art sound project COLLUMINA, an art education program will once again take place in cooperation with Theater DER KELLER e.V. with the support of the Rheinenergie Foundation in order to convey light and media art to Cologne schools. The art education program includes guided tours through the exhibitions, artist talks and a work booklet for students, which is intended to provide in-depth insights into the subject of light, sound art and new media.

The drama school DER KELLER e.V. is the most traditional private drama school in NRW and one of the oldest private schools for drama training in Germany. The students regularly take part in productions of the theater and its cooperation partners.